I don't really see the problem with this, now hear me out. 1. This is not Facebook charging for all groups, or even Facebook determining which groups do charge. Rather they are giving the option for group admins, which for the most part are private individuals, to charge admission to the group that they run. 2. To my knowledge there is no way for current group admins to make money directly for all the work they do in their group. Right now they are forced to use referal links to stores or otherwise direct readers to outside websites where the admin makes money off the ads. These methods don't work for all groups. 3. That leaves two real options for Facebook in tryting to compensate group admins and continue to build robust groups. Either, Facebook gives admins a share of the ad revenue they are making from the pages of the group, or they build another revenue stream for the group. 4. I actually wouldn't even be too upset if facebook took a small percentage of the charge, 10%. This would give Facebook another none ad revenue stream. Perhaps they could take 5% for regular groups and 10% would allow for an "ad free" group. To me that would make facebook groups an attractive option for my private group.
I had the chance to use these and evaluate rolling them out on a large scale. They are excelent little devices. Most of the innovation here is in the software, the keys are in the voice recognition and badge tracking. For the most part the system was very well thought out.
I've read a couple of post saying (probably joking) that they want all sorts of features in the badges, bluetooth, linux, etc. No, No, they've got it all wrong and vocera got it right, the badges are as simple and cheap as can be, they only have 3 buttons, and a simple LCD display. So all the battery life can be spent on the WIFI.
There is a regular headphone/mic jack on the badges.
The units work very well, and the feature of auto-forwarding to cell phones is great.
The management software is all written in Java, and changes quite often, as this is all coming from small company and bugs are fixed and features added all the time.
Missing the point ... This could be a good thing.
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IMHO: This re thinking of PC design could be a good thing. I keep looking over at what Apple is doing and wondering why can't PCs aren't keeping up.
I think I bold idea would be to split the PC architechure in two: the first completely open much like it is now. the second would have stricter requirements of what must be present in the machine (ie. firewire, usb, no legacy ports, high speed graphics, bluetooth, etc.)
The second standard would be a certification. That most PC builders would design in accordance to for the typical home and office setting. The first would be reserved for servers and specialized workstations.
The specifications for 2 should be completely open and revised semi annually. The committee that creates it should also be open (intel, microsoft, adobe, FSF, redhat, ibm, etc.)
I have to run, i hope this get's modded up so others can comment on this.
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I don't really see the problem with this, now hear me out.
1. This is not Facebook charging for all groups, or even Facebook determining which groups do charge. Rather they are giving the option for group admins, which for the most part are private individuals, to charge admission to the group that they run.
2. To my knowledge there is no way for current group admins to make money directly for all the work they do in their group. Right now they are forced to use referal links to stores or otherwise direct readers to outside websites where the admin makes money off the ads. These methods don't work for all groups.
3. That leaves two real options for Facebook in tryting to compensate group admins and continue to build robust groups. Either, Facebook gives admins a share of the ad revenue they are making from the pages of the group, or they build another revenue stream for the group.
4. I actually wouldn't even be too upset if facebook took a small percentage of the charge, 10%. This would give Facebook another none ad revenue stream. Perhaps they could take 5% for regular groups and 10% would allow for an "ad free" group. To me that would make facebook groups an attractive option for my private group.
Just my 2 c.
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Step 4. Profit !
Can someone post the test here. I think it would be really interesting to see what percent of Slashdot readers can pass the test.
I'm not sure what you are waiting for, you've been able to reorder tabs for a while.
I had the chance to use these and evaluate rolling them out on a large scale. They are excelent little devices. Most of the innovation here is in the software, the keys are in the voice recognition and badge tracking. For the most part the system was very well thought out.
I've read a couple of post saying (probably joking) that they want all sorts of features in the badges, bluetooth, linux, etc. No, No, they've got it all wrong and vocera got it right, the badges are as simple and cheap as can be, they only have 3 buttons, and a simple LCD display. So all the battery life can be spent on the WIFI.
There is a regular headphone/mic jack on the badges.
The units work very well, and the feature of auto-forwarding to cell phones is great.
The management software is all written in Java, and changes quite often, as this is all coming from small company and bugs are fixed and features added all the time.
IMHO: This re thinking of PC design could be a good thing. I keep looking over at what Apple is doing and wondering why can't PCs aren't keeping up.
I think I bold idea would be to split the PC architechure in two: the first completely open much like it is now. the second would have stricter requirements of what must be present in the machine (ie. firewire, usb, no legacy ports, high speed graphics, bluetooth, etc.)
The second standard would be a certification. That most PC builders would design in accordance to for the typical home and office setting. The first would be reserved for servers and specialized workstations.
The specifications for 2 should be completely open and revised semi annually. The committee that creates it should also be open (intel, microsoft, adobe, FSF, redhat, ibm, etc.)
I have to run, i hope this get's modded up so others can comment on this.